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nAmlBIA UnlVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION
QUALIFICATION
BACHELOR OF REGIONAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BRAR
COURSE CODE:
IEM621S
NQF LEVEL:
6
COURSE NAME:
NQF CREDITS:
INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT
12
SESSION:
January 2023
PAPER:
THEORY
DURATION:
3 HOURS
MARKS:
100
SECOND OPPORTUNITY/SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
EXAMINER(S} Mr. Cyrlius Tjipetekera
MODERATOR: Prof. M. Hauptfleisch
1. Answer ALL the questions
2. Write clearly and legibly
3. Number the answers clearly
4. Do not forget to write your Student Number on the Answer Book(s)
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 4 PAGES {Including this front page)
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Integrated Environmental Management
Question 1
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a) What do you understand by the term Global Change?
(2)
b) Why do you, a future Regional and Rural Development Planner, have to study and be able to
(4)
apply the Namibian Environmental Management Act and its Regulations?
[6]
Question 2
Compare and discuss the approaches and levels of decision-making between a Strategic Environmental
Assessment (SEA)and an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
(8)
[8]
Question 3
a) Explain the role of public participation ('stakeholder engagement') in an environmental impact
assessment.
(15)
b) Outline the four steps that are followed when one is carrying out a waste audit and explain briefly what (8)
each step represents?
[20)
Question 4
a) Give your opinion on the importance of information and knowledge sharing for good environmental
management/practice.
(4)
b) Distinguish between baseline monitoring, impacts monitoring and compliance monitoring.
(6)
[10)
Question 5
You want to buy a new stove and have narrowed down the options to three comparable stoves, with the
following labels:
A
B
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a) What type of label is this?
(1)
b) What are the advantages of this type of labelling for manufacturers?
(3)
c) Which stove would you buy if you are concerned about the environment?
Justify your answer.
(3)
d)
You also want to buy wooden furniture and find some with the logo of the Forestry
Stewardship Council. What does this logo signify?
D
FSC
(3)
[10)
Question 6
a) Name seven (7) actions that Namibia must undertake to capitalize on eco-labelling?
(7)
b) The Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response Model (DPSIR)is a useful tool when measuring the
pressures and stresses exerted on the natural resources. Using the DPSIRmodel construct a real-life
(10)
scenario that reflect all the components of the DPSIRmodel.
[17)
Question 7
a) Outline each step in the life cycle of a pair of blue denim jeans, from growing the cotton until the point (7)
where you buy the jeans.
b) Describe five (3) negative environmental impacts associated with this part of the product's life cycle. (3)
c) Propose five (5) mitigation measures to minimise the negative environmental impacts that you have
described in Q 7 (b).
(5)
[15)
Question 8
Scenario: The diagram below represents a fragmented landscape intersected by roads in Kavango East Region,
where logging (cutting of timber) has caused deforestation. You are the team leader of a restoration project.
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Access roads
D Forest
D Cleared land
a)
Explain why fragmentation of any natural landscape is an ecological problem.
(4)
b)
How would you go about treating the causes - rather than the symptoms- of degradation
(fragmentation) in this specific case?
(3)
c)
How could you achieve such linkages in practice, for this particular scenario?
(3)
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TOTAL: 100
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